Diva DirtWomens Wrestling2017-12-14T02:40:27Zhttp://www.diva-dirt.com/feed/atom/WordPressJosuehttp://www.diva-dirt.com/?p=1419922017-12-14T02:36:00Z2017-12-14T02:40:27ZTonight on NXT (Dec 13th), a new teaser aired for MMA Horsewoman Shayna Baszler’s arrival to NXT. The WWE previously announced that the Mae Young Classic runner-up had joined to the company back in October. Tonight’s episode of NXT also served as the first to broadcast on the USA Network. Despite this special edition of […]

Tonight’s episode of NXT also served as the first to broadcast on the USA Network. Despite this special edition of NXT, this week’s non-title Women’s match of Emer Moon taking on Peyton Royce streamed on the WWE Network.

After a quick tie-up to start things off, Royce landed knee strikes to the midsection and whipped Moon to the ropes. A springboard off the second ropes allows for Moon to avoid a spinning kick from Royce and counter a head scissors takeover.

Royce slipped to the outside to regroup with Billie Kay but a top rope crossbody from Moon wiped out both members of the Iconic Duo. As Moon tossed Royce back in the ring, Kay provided a small distraction to allow Royce strike and use the ring ropes to tangle up Moon as we head to a break.

After the break, Moon takes control with an arm drag to Royce. Moon followed up with various quick kicks. The women trade reversals until Royce sees an opening to land a back elbow strike, a forearm and kick to the midsection.

Moon ducked a spinning kick and followed up by setting up Royce for a powerbomb. Royce managed to avoid this by holding on to the ropes but Moon would take this moment to land an elevated stomp on Royce. Moon would then climb the turnbuckle to hit the Eclipse for the win.

Post match, Kay entered the ring to strike down the NXT Women’s Champion with a big boot. Royce would join her Iconic Duo partner for a two-on-one attack on Moon. This prompted Nikki Cross to come out to make the save for and chase away the Iconic Dup all while her eyes locked on to Moon’s NXT Women’s Championship.

What did you think of this week’s episode of NXT? Are you excited to see Shayna Baszler in NXT? Would you like to have seen this week’s Women’s match air on the USA Network? Let us know in the comments below!

]]>0Rhys Hawkshttp://www.diva-dirt.com/?p=1419752017-12-13T23:53:52Z2017-12-13T23:49:16ZTonight’s edition of NXT is a big one. Why you ask? It’s because this will be NXT’s debut on the USA Network! During this episode, we will see new NXT Women’s Champion Ember Moon proving her worth as the new champion. She squares off against the Venus Fly trap of NXT, and member of the […]

Tonight’s edition of NXT is a big one. Why you ask? It’s because this will be NXT’s debut on the USA Network!

During this episode, we will see new NXT Women’s Champion Ember Moon proving her worth as the new champion. She squares off against the Venus Fly trap of NXT, and member of the Iconic Duo, Peyton Royce. Expect to see her other half, Billie Kay, not far behind.

]]>28Josuehttp://www.diva-dirt.com/?p=1419632017-12-13T23:44:41Z2017-12-13T15:09:14ZThe WWE have announced their plans to air a new Mixed Tag Team Tournament via Facebook Watch beginning Tuesday January 16th, 2018, following SmackDown Live. According to WWE, the Mixed Match Challenge will be a Raw vs. SmackDown tournament that will consist of twelve 20-minute live episodes that will feature WWE Superstars from both the […]

The WWE have announced their plans to air a new Mixed Tag Team Tournament via Facebook Watch beginning Tuesday January 16th, 2018, following SmackDown Live.

According to WWE, the Mixed Match Challenge will be a Raw vs. SmackDown tournament that will consist of twelve 20-minute live episodes that will feature WWE Superstars from both the Raw and SmackDown LIVE rosters competing in a single-elimination mixed tag-team tournament to win $100,000 to support the charity of their choice.

Below are the names of the participants set for the Mixed Match Challenge, with the announcement of teams being revealed on January 4th:

Pro Wrestling Sheet, who first reported on rumors of the series last month, adds that Vince McMahon is pulling out all the stops with to impress Facebook’s top brass, as well as other websites/streaming services, in an effort to open new doors for 2019 when the company’s TV contract with NBC Universal expires.

The show won’t necessarily be storyline related with Raw and SmackDown, but minor things that happen to the performers might factor into their individual stories (like an “injury” or grueling match causing someone to miss a match).

Some pairing such as Nia Jax and Enzo Amore are almost a lock to team together and pairing up real-life married couples Jimmy Uso/Naomi and Lana/Rusev.

]]>87Team DDhttp://www.diva-dirt.comhttp://www.diva-dirt.com/?p=1419612017-12-13T13:47:06Z2017-12-13T14:00:54ZOn this day in history: December 13th, 2009 | Accompanied by her Lay-Cool bestie Layla, Michelle McCool defended her Women’s Title against Mickie James at 2009’s TLC Pay-Per-View. The match took place in the midst of the “Piggie James” feud, as evidenced by Layla’s customized top. Mickie looked to get even with her tormenters, but […]

December 13th, 2009 | Accompanied by her Lay-Cool bestie Layla, Michelle McCool defended her Women’s Title against Mickie James at 2009’s TLC Pay-Per-View. The match took place in the midst of the “Piggie James” feud, as evidenced by Layla’s customized top. Mickie looked to get even with her tormenters, but interference by Layla threw a wrench in her plans. Layla received an accidental boot by Michelle for her troubles, but it put into motion a series of events that brought the same boot to Mickie’s head and gave Michelle the 1-2-3.

Also occurring today in history:
* 12/13/93 – Alundra Blayze defeats Heidi Lee Morgan in the finals of a tournament to win the reinstated Women’s Title.
* 12/13/10 – Michelle McCool wins a Battle Royal to be crowned 2010’s Diva of the Year at the Slammy Awards.

]]>1Josuehttp://www.diva-dirt.com/?p=1419392017-12-13T23:29:49Z2017-12-13T02:46:13ZAfter reportedly suffering multiple injuries at the hand of the Riott Squad two weeks ago, SmackDown Superstar Naomi made her return to the blue on tonight’s (Dec 12th) SmackDown Live. ? The night saw Charlotte Flair take on Ruby Riott, just days before Flair defends the SmackDown Women’s Title at Clash of Champions against Natalya […]

The night saw Charlotte Flair take on Ruby Riott, just days before Flair defends the SmackDown Women’s Title at Clash of Champions against Natalya in a Lumberjack match.

Flair began the contest by tossing Riott across the ring all while keeping a close eye on the rest of the Riott Squad (Sarah Logan and Liv Morgan) who were at ringside. A small distraction from Logan gives Riott a chance to land some offense on Flair by sending her face first to the turnbuckles.

Switching gears, Riott locked in a grounded headlock but Flair managed to break free by backing Riott to a corner. Riott reapplied the submission after pulling Flair by the hair and taking her back down. Riott climbed the turnbuckle for an aerial attack but Flair was able to counter by getting the knees up.

When the action spilled to the outside, Flair began to fight off the Riott Squad and even took a swing at Natalya who was sitting at commentary. Natalya struck back, thus ending that match via disqualification.

The Riott Squad would then set their sight on Flair, using the numbers game to their advantage against the SmackDown Women’s Champion by tossing her to the barricades and steel steps. As the group began to set up the steels steps over Flair to cause more damage, Naomi bursted out to make the save, landing a double dropkick to Logan and Morgan and a Rear End to Riott.

As the Riott Squad retreated to the back, they attacked by the rest of the Lumberjacks to Sunday’s SmackDown Women’s Title in Carmella, Lana and Tamina.

What did you think of this week’s episode of SmackDown? Are you excited to see Naomi return? What do you think will happen at Clash of Champions? Let us know in the comments below!

]]>155Josuehttp://www.diva-dirt.com/?p=1419322017-12-13T06:59:27Z2017-12-13T00:11:07ZImpact Wrestling Knockout Rosemary was interviewed by Irish Mirror to share her thoughts on the current Knockouts division, her allegiance with Allie and changing her Demon Assassin persona heel to face. Highlights of the interview below. On the current Knockouts division: “”It’s time for the current women to step up and, not be given, but […]

Impact Wrestling Knockout Rosemary was interviewed by Irish Mirror to share her thoughts on the current Knockouts division, her allegiance with Allie and changing her Demon Assassin persona heel to face. Highlights of the interview below.

On the current Knockouts division: “”It’s time for the current women to step up and, not be given, but take the role left when Gail Kim retired. The Knockouts division is in, shall we say, a renaissance. There is no outstanding veteran in the division any longer. It’s up to Rosemary, Sienna, Allie, Laurel Van Ness, it’s up to somebody to take that role, which is something that we’re set up to do.”

Alliance with Allie: “”It is funny, because we spent so many years as rivals on the independent scene, but once we became a functioning duo, it really took off with our fans.We know each other better than most people know us, which is why I think we work so well as allies instead of rivals.”
On her persona turning babyface: “For a lot of 2016 she was this heel who caused destruction with Decay. She would kidnap and blackmail, cartoon villain things, but their would be an air of reality and danger to them as well. Decay, were really the only villains worthy of Matt Hardy and his family during that time. … We were the only ones who could possibly keep up with them, and match them at the level they were at. So she’s now kind of, dare I say a babyface, but she hasn’t changed really the way she operates. She still demands darkness, and chaos and loyalty from people. She hasn’t changed the way that she does battle, but maybe she’s changing the reason why she does battle.”

What did you think of the interview? Have you enjoyed Rosemary’s run as a babyface? How would you set a resurgence for the Knockouts division? Let us know in the comments below!

]]>8Jasonhttp://www.diva-dirt.com/?p=1419042017-12-12T17:37:45Z2017-12-12T17:34:40ZThe Riott Squad battle Carmella, Tamina & Lana All six Superstars will be at ringside for the SmackDown Women’s Championship Match this Sunday, serving as Lumberjacks for the title bout between Charlotte Flair and Natalya. Before their focus turns to keeping those two competitors inside the ring, however, The Riott Squad and Carmella, Tamina & […]

All six Superstars will be at ringside for the SmackDown Women’s Championship Match this Sunday, serving as Lumberjacks for the title bout between Charlotte Flair and Natalya. Before their focus turns to keeping those two competitors inside the ring, however, The Riott Squad and Carmella, Tamina & Lana will have the opportunity to unleash their fury on each other.

All six women are upset at being left out of the title picture and confronted Smackdown LIVE General Manager Daniel Bryan about it last week, leading to the announcement of the Lumberjack Match for the title. Yet, with tensions running high throughout Team Blue’s Women’s division, this match has been made in hopes that the tension won’t spill over into the title bout.

]]>460Rhys Hawkshttp://www.diva-dirt.com/?p=1418412017-12-12T13:33:45Z2017-12-12T14:30:25ZThis is an interesting one to say the least. Irish based promotion, Over The Top Wrestling (OTT) has introduced a Gender Neutral Championship to their collection of championship belts. Current OTT Women’s Champion ‘Session Moth’ Martina became the inaugural champion at this past weekend’s ‘Being The Elite’ event from Dublin. Martina, alongside current Defiant Women’s Champion […]

This is an interesting one to say the least. Irish based promotion, Over The Top Wrestling (OTT) has introduced a Gender Neutral Championship to their collection of championship belts. Current OTT Women’s Champion ‘Session Moth’ Martina became the inaugural champion at this past weekend’s ‘Being The Elite’ event from Dublin.

Martina, alongside current Defiant Women’s Champion and WWE Mae Young competitor, Kay Lee Ray defeated The AngelCruzers (Angel Cruz & B-Cool) for the title. However, Martina was the awarded the title after scoring the pinfall to win the match.

The next night at OTT’s ‘Aftershock’ event in Belfast, she successfully retained against Adam Maxted and Charlie Sterling.

She had this to say about the honour on Twitter:

I am very excited about the prospect of this Gender Neutral title. I have wrestled as many men as I have women throughout my career.this is OTT breaking down barriers. This opens up not only the best women in the business,but men aswell.No one is off limits, everyone is equal. pic.twitter.com/8OBCUdd8qa

It is quite common on the independents for men and women to compete against one another. This is also shown on a more mainstream level with Lucha Underground. Women on that show are eligible to compete for all titles in the promotion. Women have also competed for Male titles in different companies. However the idea of introducing a ‘Gender Neutral’ title is a touchy subject with people for and against the LGBTQ+ community. Some believe there are only two genders: male and female. While others believe in gender-fluidity and there is more of an umbrella of genders.

As far as Martina and this new championship goes, she already had had interest from other wrestlers and fan suggestions. These include the likes of Jimmy Havoc, Jim Cornette (jokingly), and even WWE United Kingdom Champion, Pete Dunne.

But what do you all think of this news? Do you like the idea of there being a ‘Gender Neutral’ Championship in professional wrestling? Who would you like to see Martina defend her championship against? As always, let us know in the comments below!

]]>8Rhys Hawkshttp://www.diva-dirt.com/?p=1418462017-12-13T01:05:50Z2017-12-12T14:15:24ZSHE could have been someone else? Of course the ‘she’ we are talking here is a character that WWE has teased for many years. The herald of Bray Wyatt and his Wyatt followers… Sister Abigail. Not long ago, it was nearly revealed that this character would actually become an alter-ego to Bray Wyatt. This he […]

SHE could have been someone else? Of course the ‘she’ we are talking here is a character that WWE has teased for many years. The herald of Bray Wyatt and his Wyatt followers… Sister Abigail.

Not long ago, it was nearly revealed that this character would actually become an alter-ego to Bray Wyatt. This he would combat Finn Balor’s ‘The Demon’ who he feuded with at the time. However, we may have actually seen Abigail control someone completely different… a former champion perhaps?

Former WWE writer Tom Casiello was recently a guest on The Agenda Podcast. During said interview, he revealed there was a pitch to have former Divas Champion Kaitlyn was supposed to become the first female member of the Wyatt family. However it was not the idea to bring her up as Sister Abigail herself, like some reports have falsely claimed. Back when the idea was brought up, Sister Abigail was still this unknown entity/dead character that the Wyatt’s worshipped.

The idea would have had Kaitlyn join The Wyatt Family after her Divas Title loss to AJ Lee and to later down the line betray the Wyatt’s. Today it seems that WWE creative has put Sister Abigail on hold as Wyatt feuds with the newly ‘Woken’ Matt Hardy. But that won’t stop them from turning him back into Abigail down the line. Or for her to inhabit a new host we may not expect.

This discussion can be hear around the 112:00 mark in the interview.

We also suggest you listen to the interview yourselves. The former head writer for WWE talks about many different topics during his time. On the women’s side of things, this included:

* NXT Redemption
* Logic being women talent ‘jumping between different male roles’
* The rise of AJ Lee
* The role of The Bella Twins & Total Divas
* The importance of NXT & The Four Horsewomen
* The infamous Paige/Charlotte promo
* The return of the Women’s Championship and the retirement of the term “Diva”.
* Thoughts on Vince McMahon, Stephanie McMahon, and Triple H
* Being gay within WWE
* AND MUCH MORE!

What do you all think of this? Do you think Kaitlyn could have pulled off the role of Sister Abigail? Would you rather have it be someone from down in NXT or someone currently on the indies? Or are you glad you don’t have to see Bray Wyatt in drag anytime soon? As always, let us know in the comments below!

]]>53Team DDhttp://www.diva-dirt.comhttp://www.diva-dirt.com/?p=1418992017-12-12T13:21:13Z2017-12-12T14:00:24ZOn this day in history: December 12th, 1999 | At Armageddon 1999, Women’s Champion Ivory was less than pleased to be defending her title in an Evening Gown Swimming Pool match. Her opponents Barbara Bush, Jacqueline and Miss Kitty were less appalled. The Fabulous Moolah and Mae Young were there to officiate the match, watching […]

December 12th, 1999 | At Armageddon 1999, Women’s Champion Ivory was less than pleased to be defending her title in an Evening Gown Swimming Pool match. Her opponents Barbara Bush, Jacqueline and Miss Kitty were less appalled. The Fabulous Moolah and Mae Young were there to officiate the match, watching as Jacqueline and Barbara were eliminated before Kitty stripped Ivory and became the new Women’s Champion. The new champ then took a celebratory dip in the pool sans-dress, topping it all off by taking off her top.

Kitty was also present when Chyna defended the Intercontinental Title against Chris Jericho. Jericho put an end to Chyna’s historic first reign as IC Champion with the Walls of Jericho, forcing her to tap out. It wouldn’t be long before Chyna regained the title, though. Half of it, anyway.

Also occurring today in history:
* 12/12/04 – Dawn Marie defeats Miss Jackie with Charlie Haas as the special guest referee at Armageddon 2004.
* 12/12/11 – Kelly Kelly‘s Divas Title win is named the Divalicious Moment of the Year at the 2011 Slammy Awards.